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SMOKERS are being asked to keep their habit away from the gates of Newport secondary schools as the council launches a new plan to make schools healthier across the city. Caerleon comprehensive was the first to officially declare its school gates a no s

The law banning smoking in a car or other vehicle when travelling with anyone under the age of 18 was introduced in October 2015 and aimed to cut the risk of passive smoking among children. Motorists and passengers were warned they could face a £50 pena

Motorists face a £50 penalty under the legislation which was part of a drive to protect children and young people from the effects of second-hand smoke. Other cases were given a verbal warning, according to responses to freedom of information requests t

But of the 42 police forces questioned in England and Wales, only Northumbria had issued one. Dyfed Powys gave six warnings, Devon & Cornwall three and the Met two. Essex Police is issuing verbal warnings and Greater Manchester said it was “unclear who

But research by the Press Association indicates that enforcement has been minimal. In the 12 months after the law was imposed, only a single penalty was issued, according to r esponses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from 42 police forces in En

A revamped version of a bill intended to introduce a number of measures improving the health of people in Wales has been presented to AMs - minus the controversial ban on using e-cigarettes, or ‘vaping’ in public, an earlier version had proposed

Dr Banfield told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme: "I'm a bit loath to make a direct comparison but the most obvious one, because I'm in my fifties, is with Thalidomide. "The reason why America did not get an issue with Thalidomide was because the

Unless a worker’s employment contract says so, they don’t have the right to take a smoke break at anytime outside of their alloted break time. Fflur Jones, Partner at Darwin Gray, says: "Employers are increasingly imposing limits on the amount of time o

Parents and people picking-up children will be urged not to light up as they do so. It follows a previous council campaign that saw signs go up in 77 play areas in Swansea declaring them out of bounds to smokers and a move earlier this year to declare C

Surgeons are warning smokers of the dangers of buying cheap or imported vaping kits after five people were treated for burns when their e-cigarette batteries exploded. Consultant plastic surgeon Dai Nguyen, from Morriston Hospital’s Welsh Centre for Burn